GeForce MX550 vs UHD Graphics G4 (Lakefield GT1 48 EU)

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated405
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data32.84
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameLakefield GT1TU117S
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date28 May 2020 (4 years ago)17 December 2021 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores481024
Core clock speed200 MHz1065 MHz
Boost clock speed500 MHz1320 MHz
Number of transistorsno data4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rateno data42.24
Floating-point processing powerno data2.703 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data32

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR4GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data2 GB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data1500 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data96 GB/s
Shared memory+-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno dataPortable Device Dependent

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus-+
Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_112 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2020 17 December 2021
Chip lithography 10 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 25 Watt

UHD Graphics G4 (Lakefield GT1 48 EU) has a 20% more advanced lithography process, and 257.1% lower power consumption.

GeForce MX550, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics G4 (Lakefield GT1 48 EU) and GeForce MX550. We've got no test results to judge.


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Intel UHD Graphics G4 (Lakefield GT1 48 EU)
UHD Graphics G4 (Lakefield GT1 48 EU)
NVIDIA GeForce MX550
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